Homos did their gross stuff behind closed doors and in ghetto areas, the homos took pains to hide it from normal people and they were generally left alone.
The idea of being an open homo was absurd outside of really small or insular communities. And no way would a known homo be allowed anywhere near children.
If the homo showed he couldn't control himself by pretending to be normal in public he could be fired, kicked out of anywhere he rented, or in a few cases targeted for extra-judicial discouragement. The sodomy laws were meant to separate extreme cases from normal society, like decency and other pro-social laws.
Publicly there wasn't any talk about them other than to maybe a sermon against them in a church.
We had a good balance in the mid 20th century.
Homos did their gross stuff behind closed doors and in ghetto areas, the homos took pains to hide it from normal people and they were generally left alone.
The idea of being an open homo was absurd outside of really small or insular communities. And no way would a known homo be allowed anywhere near children.
If the homo showed he couldn't control himself by pretending to be normal in public he could be fired, kicked out of anywhere he rented, or in a few cases targeted for extra-judicial discouragement. The sodomy laws were meant to separate extreme cases from normal society, like decency and other pro-social laws.
Publicly there wasn't any talk about them other than to maybe a sermon against them in a church.